Clothes drier



S. H. MASON.

CLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2|. 1919.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SUMNER H. MASON, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES DRIER.

Application filed March 21 T 0 all to ham it may concern:

'Be it known that 1, SUMNER ll. Mason, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVorcester, inthe county of lVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Clothes Drier, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a clothes drier of the type which may be manually adjusted as to vertical position.

Such driers are of great convenience as they may be filled with clothes when in lowered position, and may thereafter be raised to such an elevation that they will not obstruct movement beneath them. They are found particularly desirable in small apartments where room is limited.

It is the object of my present invention to improve the construction and appearance of such clothes driers, rendering them more durable and more easily operated, and providing a drier of thistype which may be easily and cheaply manufactured in quantity.

lVit-h this general object in view, an important feature of my invention relates to an improved all-metal construction of the complete drier, except the clothes-sticks. Another feature of my invention relates to improved provision for determining the vertical position of the movable parts of the drier under different conditions of use.

My invention further relates to arrangements and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

A preferred form of my invention is shown in the drawings, in which-- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved drier;

Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation thereof, showing certain parts in a different position;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged rear elevation of the drier;

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are sectional details taken along the lines 44, 5-5 and 66 in Fig. 3 respectively, and

r Fig. 7 is an enlarged side elevation of the positioning device.

Referring to the drawings, my improved drier is mounted upon an upright 10 shown herein as a piece of angle-iron provided with brackets or clips 11, 12 and 13 by which it may be firmly secured to the wall or other support. Upper and lower castings 14 and 15 are provided with V-shaped slots 16 and Specification of Letters Patent.

, 1919. Serial No. 284,009.

17 adapted to receive the angle-iron 10 and to permit the castings to slide easily thereon. The castings 14 and 15 are rigidly secured in spaced relation by a rod 18 threaded or otherwise securely fastened in the castings. The rod is positioned closely adjacent the angle-iron 10 and directly behind the same, and is accordingly substantially concealed thereby.

The usual drier sticks 19 are inserted in openings in the casting 14, and when not in use may be folded to substantially upright position, their lower ends resting on the casting 15. With this construction it will be seen that the spaced castings 14 and 15 with their supported drier sticks can be readily moved vertically to any desired position along the angle-iron 10.

For securing the drier in clilferent positions, I provide a latch or plunger 20 (Fig. 7 slidable in bearings 21 in the under side of the casting 15 and forced yieldingly toward the angle-iron upright 10 by a spring 22. A shoulder 23 at the lower end of the upright 10 limits downward movement of the drier, the bracket or clip 11 also acting as a stop in this direction.

In the intermediate portion of the upright 10 two notches 24 and 25 are provided. When the plunger 20 is in the notch 24 the parts are in the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. In this position any drier sticks which are not in use and which remain in uprightposition will not extend beyond the upper end of the upright 10 and will therefore not. engage the ceiling of the room in which the drier is used. As the drier is moved upward, the plunger 20 will engage the notch 24 without attention on the part of the operator, thus automatically protecting the ceiling from injury If. however, all of the sticks are in use, it is then permissible to raise the drier to a higher elevation and the plunger 20 may be withdrawn from the notch 24 and allowed to enter the notch 25, when the parts will be in the position shown in Fig. 2 with the drier sticks slightly below the upper end of the upright 10.

Having thus described my invention, it will be seen that I have provided a drier in which the moving parts are of verv light weight and so constructed that they may be very easily moved from one position to the other. The rod 18 is concealed by the upright 10 and the only visible moving parts are the castings 14 and 15 and the drier IIZZAI sticks supported thereon. As all of the operative parts are of metal construction, the parts cannot bind or stick as is frequently the case in driers in which Wood is used.

Having thus described my invention, it Will be evident that changes and modifications can be made therein by those skilled in the art Without departing from the spirit andscope thereof as set forth in the claim, and I do not Wish to be otherwise limited to the details herein disclosed, but What I claim is v A clothes drier having in combination a single upright metal supporting rod of noncircular cross-section, brackets on said rod by Which the rod may be secured in position spaced from a Wall, upper and lower castings, each having an opening through the body of the casting and removed from the edge thereof, corresponding in size and outline to the cross-section of said rod, said castings being slidable directly on'said rod and being held from lateral displacement or angular movement relative thereto by the 

